Christopher Columbus is one of America’s most celebrated murderers, cheaters, and thieves. Responsible for thousands of Native American lives, Columbus forcibly took control over the Americas with the army of Spain on his side. Yet this man is still renowned for his actions and rewarded with an annual nation-wide holiday. Christopher Columbus was merely a power hungry, genocidal maniac and should be viewed as such.

Columbus can be looked down upon for multiple reasons. He was welcomed to the land he “discovered” with open arms from the Natives. He managed to repay them for their hospitality by having his men rape, torture, and kill them on his command. The surviving Natives were either shipped to Spain as slaves or worked to death searching for the little gold their land had. Columbus was also a stealer of ideas, it was actually a member of his crew who was first to catch a glimpse of the Bahamas before anyone else. But Columbus, being the greedy thief he is, claimed the sight as his own. This was not the last historical proposal he would claim as his own.

After thieving so many ideas (e.g. the world is round, he was the discoverer of America) Columbus was still able to convince Spain’s royalty he deserved the rewards he received. He was a horrible man who literally wiped out a whole population, its culture, religion, and traditions. He is no better than Adolf Hitler in most aspects of his career. Why America still celebrates this man as a global hero is a mystery to me.

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Brian Haller
ID# 4129259
HIST101
Professor Peter Cash
23 July 2010
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Thursday, October 11, and Friday October 12, 1492. In Columbus Journal he
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days Columbus finds the Indies along with its vibrant green trees, various fruits,
water, and the unclothed people of the land. The people of this land had very long,
tough hair like the mane of a horse, they painted their bodies in various colors, they
were very generous, and didn't carry arms because they didn't know what "arms"
was. When Columbus first arrived he gave them red cups and a string of glass beads
to wear around their neck and in return they came swimming back to the ship,
"bringing us parrots, cotton thread in balls, and spears, and many other things
which they bartered for". When Columbus came across all these finding of the Indies
he called two captains to be witnesses so of him taking possession of the island for
his king and queen the masters.
Paradise Found and Lost by Daniel J. Boorstin presents a document of Columbus
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AMH 2010
14 November 2014
ChristopherColumbusChristopherColumbus is known for discovering the “new-world”, including America and other countries. Although, there is a lot of controversy surrounding whether or not he should be dubbed as the person who discovered America. It is only said that he discovered America because no one in Europe had ever been to America before. Columbus was doubted by his King and his Queen to even survive the trip. However, when Columbus came back and showed the King and Queen the 12 Taino tribesman he kidnapped, they started funding expeditions for explorers such as himself and John Cabot, they also started making profit off local products such as rice tobacco and sugar, and slowly killing the natives with their diseases while doing this (Early American slavery quotes).
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From Beginning to End
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